William Bennett Quotes
It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.
Quotes to Explore
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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I've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is.
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A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny in every Middle Eastern capital.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.
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I'm a T-shirt-and-jeans-with-combat-boots guy. And if I don't have to shave, I don't.
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I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.
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Film has always been where my heart is.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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People want you to fail.
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I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.
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There's an electrical thing about movies.
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I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star.
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I don't have a trainer. I have what I call 'the poor man's workout and the rich man's diet.' I run for 1 hour every day and do 500 sit-ups and 1000 crunches, and I lift weights at the Y for 28 bucks a month, even if it's 3 in the morning.
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Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
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No cricket should be played for at least a month anywhere in the world after a World Cup.
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How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.
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I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.
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Mainly, I thought of Barney as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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When you don't take what you have for granted, you constantly try to re-prove yourself to yourself rather than to other people.
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Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road.
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It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.
